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Mencken found his match in biographer Charles Fecher
The legendary publisher Alfred A. Knopf was a man who valued excellence. For years he searched for someone to write a biography of his friend Henry Louis Mencken. In his opinion, no biography up to then, including that of William Manchester, was right....Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Biography (genre), Labor Legislation
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A toast to Baltimore's old breweries
"Back again, back again, we've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again, since Roosevelt's been re-elected moonshine liquor's been corrected, we've got legal wine, whiskey, beer and gin." —Recorded by Bill Cox in 1936 Happy New Year! Oh, I'm sorry....Tags: Fells Point, Crown Cork & Seal Company Incorporated, Dining and Drinking, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Natural Resources
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Book review: 'Holidays in Heck' by P.J. O'Rourke
Tribune NewspapersP.J. O'Rourke has written so many books of humor that no one is quite sure how many. I have it on good authority that it's 15, but since I finished writing this sentence, he may have written yet another. That's how fast he is. I've enjoyed O'Rourke's...Tags: P.J. O'Rourke, Travel, Holidays, Book, Holiday Vacations
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This Sunday: James M. Cain minus the noir
Jacket CopyJames M. Cain's lengthy essay "Paradise" is reprinted this week. We also include some faces to watch in 2012... -
The voice of reason
H.L. Mencken once observed that newspapers, by nature, are bellicose and do not speak in support of anyone or anything unless they absolutely can't help it. There are any number of public figures in Maryland and beyond who would attest to this.
But on...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Health, Radio Industry, Palliative Care, Republican Party
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Terrapin, anyone? Happy birthday, H.L. Mencken
The Baltimore SunIt's Mencken's birthday, and everyone in the newsroom is starving for terrapin stew. And a beer. It took about three seconds to find some good Mencken writing on food and restaurants. He begins the essay "A Genial Restauranteur," from the collection... -
In a word: Pellucid
Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: PELLUCID The light shines through this word...Tags: Abraham Lincoln
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New history tea debuts at Ellicott City's Tea on the Tiber
If you’re a history buff but don’t fancy walking up and down Ellicott City’s hills, take note of the new literary (and stationary) tour at Tea on the Tiber.
Now you can have a seat and a sweet in the charming teahouse while listening to...Tags: Ellicott City, Washington Irving, Davy Crockett
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Rodriguez: The 'Mad Men' mystique
Who the heck would want to be like Betty or her ad man ex, Don?
That's what I asked myself recently when I passed a Banana Republic window display featuring the retailer's new "Mad Men"-inspired clothing collection.
"Are you a Betty?" read a poster with...Tags: The Playboy Club (tv program), Television Industry, NBC (tv network), AMC (tv network), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Urban 'pioneers' risk much for their 'hoods
Chris Taylor peered down the street at the house. It was a vacant. And it was a problem.
He'd been getting calls for weeks about this property, about the teenagers hanging out there, the drug dealing and prostitution. He dialed a number, placed his...Tags: Heroin, Drug Trafficking, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Pigtown, Juvenile Delinquency
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David R. Owen
Baltimore Sun reporterDavid Rogers Owen, an internationally known maritime lawyer and accomplished yachtsman, died Friday in his sleep of unknown causes at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. The former longtime Riderwood resident was 97. "The death of David...Tags: Washington, DC, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), University of Virginia, Laws, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and cocaine addiction
![Howard Markel's "An Anatomy of Addiction" starts, like a shot, on May 5,1884. A Bellevue Hospital orderly summons Dr. William Stewart Halsted to save the leg of a laborer who has fallen from a scaffolding.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63405604-21103000.jpg "Howard Markel's "An Anatomy of Addiction\" starts, like a shot, on May 5,1884. A Bellevue Hospital orderly summons Dr. William Stewart Halsted to save the leg of a laborer who has fallen from a scaffolding.")
Howard Markel's "An Anatomy of Addiction" starts, like a shot, on May 5,1884. A Bellevue Hospital orderly summons Dr. William Stewart Halsted to save the leg of a laborer who has fallen from a scaffolding.
Famous for the speed and virtuosity of his...Tags: Enoch Pratt Free Library, Health, Psychotherapy, Science and Technology, Physiology
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